Dr. Vafa Bayat, MD, PhD is a research scientist and physician with diverse diagnostic and basic research training from Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford University in neurodegeneration, genetic diseases, infectious diseases, and oncology/pathology. He is currently the Program Head of Research and Development at the healthcare artificial intelligence company Bitscopic, where he is involved in developing health products, diagnostics, and tools that build on its strengths. At Bitscopic for the past year he has been involved in analyzing the medical data of COVID-19 patients to uncover new and interesting things. Last year he published a paper with his colleagues that said that one could screen hospital patients’ standard lab results to identify with high accuracy patients who were infected with COVID-19 without even obtaining a PCR test. This year he is preparing to submit a paper analyzing the drugs that hospitalized COVID-19 patients are on and sharing which drugs are associated with excellent survival. He is married to a Chinese cancer biologist at Stanford and they are expecting a baby this year. He enjoys teaching children’s classes, writing children’s books, and doing community service in his spare time.